I am a crossover user and am most interested in keeping Windows active, at least while I learn Linux (but probably into the forseeable future: gaming). I've been trying to install Linux on my PC for a while now, but I've been running in to problems.

With the Fedora 8 installer I was unable to get past the keyboard selection screen. It would freeze when I selected my keyboard and hit next. On Fedora 9, it freezes after I enter the root password and click next.

Ubuntu was able to run fine, but I couldn't get my RAID setup to work, so I was hoping I could get somewhere with Fedora. Can anyone lend some insight?

Thanks.

WiglyWorm

05-19-2008 11:05 AM

a) bumb

b) Does anyone know what the installer is trying to do at either of these points, so I can try to figure out what may be causing the crash?

vertigo88x

05-19-2008 06:58 PM

on what computer are you trying to install it. fedora is ussually bleeding edge, which means you don't always get the most stable environment.

one thing you can try is, instead of double clicking on the install to icon to install, launch a terminal, and type '/usr/bin/liveinst' i just thought of this, and have never tried it myself, but it might give you some output as to what it is doing or maybe some errors.

BallsOfSteel

05-19-2008 07:51 PM

I was having a problem installing F9 as well. I'd have problems getting past the partitioning stage. I went to a text based install and that worked just fine. However, when I went to get into gdm, it would freeze. All of those problems were with an install DVD.

I had ZERO problems getting the Live CD to boot through virtualization. That's the price you pay for bleeding edge, though.